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Quetta’s deadly attack on hospital proves no place is sacred for Daesh BY Mishaal khan Last week’s terror attacks in Quetta, Pakistan, saw three generations of lawyers, wiped out. Quetta has been one of the longest-suffering victims of terrorism since September 11, 2001 in both Pakistan and throughout the world. But the recent attack on

By Kay Johnson and Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD, Aug 15 – The U.S. drone strike that killed Daesh’s commander for Afghanistan and Pakistan was the latest blow to the Middle East-led movement’s ambitions to expand into a region where the long-established Taliban remain the dominant Islamist force. Daesh has enticed hundreds, perhaps thousands, of jihadist fighters in

By Mehreen Zahra-Malik and Gul Yusufzai ISLAMABAD/QUETTA, Pakistan, Aug 9 – Pakistani lawyers staged a nationwide strike on Tuesday after dozens of colleagues were slain in a suicide bombing that killed at least 70 people at a hospital in the southwestern city of Quetta. Medical staff said up to 60 of those slain in the

By Gul Yousafzai QUETTA, Pakistan, Aug 8 – A suicide bomber in Pakistan killed at least 70 people and wounded more than 100 on Monday in an attack on mourners gathered at a hospital in the southwestern city of Quetta, and Daesh and a Taliban faction claimed responsibility. The bomber struck as a crowd of mostly